Visitor

BACKGROUND Nash explores virtual environments as audiovisual performance spaces, data or motion capture sites and generative platforms. Visitor was developed following research at The Banff Arts Centre and was inspired by his travels to the snow-driven mountains of the Canadian Rockies. This interactive digital and physical installation has two components: the moving image piece 'Where the Bears are Sleeping', with monochromatic imagery of glaciers, forests and frozen lakes; and Vermilion Lake, comprising a full-scale replica of a trapper's cabin which houses an interactive virtual environment. In both works, either a friendly or malevolent force is suggested, evoking the hunter being hunted, the tracker being tracked. CONTRIBUTION Employing techniques used in video games, bringing exterior virtual space into the physical gallery space, the exhibition plays with apprehension of different forms of reality disturbing and exploiting expecatations of space and environment. SIGNIFICANCE A touring exhibition, Visitor was commissioned by the Henry Moore Foundation and Arts Council UK supported by The Banff Centre, Canada and was favourably reviewed in the Guardian.